NM Supreme Court ruling highlights dire need for emergency power reform

As thoroughly documented and explained by Albuquerque Journal reporter Dan Boyd New Mexico’s Supreme Court affirmed the legality of Gov. Lujan Grisham’s public emergency orders which involved her overturning the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution (without so much as a legislative vote). The emergency ALSO targeted drug use, but the Gov.’s declaration primarily eliminated the ability to conceal OR open carry a gun in Bernalillo County. Thus, MLG (and the Supreme Court by ratifying her actions) are directly attempting to overturn the US Constitution by executive fiat.

Sadly, despite repeated efforts since the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and the Gov.’s first public emergency declaration on March 11, 2020, efforts by GOP legislators (and assisted by RGF) to reform New Mexico’s public emergency laws by giving the Legislature a “seat at the table” have been fruitless. A bill that would reform New Mexico’s public emergency laws has been introduced in the past by Republican House member Greg Nibert (now a PRC commissioner) and has been introduced (HB 535 as well as  an amendment HJR 21) by Republican House members Stephanie Lord and John Block only to be left unheard as the session is now two weeks from its conclusion.

Sadly, whether the issue is EV mandates imposed (without legislative input) by MLG or her abuse of emergency orders, New Mexico’s Democrats utterly refuse to stand up to this Gov. and assert their rightful powers. Even anti-gun activist David Hogg stated clearly that the Gov. was acting illegally. Does this mean New Mexico’s Democrat Supreme Court is to the left of Hogg on guns?